Everything is really awkward because the Cooks vs Brazil was published in the Cooks official Facebook and the Brazilan Rugby Union's (CBRu) website months ago. Nobody is inventing this fixture. I am asking CBRu and no answers...

Brazil vs Portugal will be in São Paulo, again at the Pacaembu Stadium. June 10th at 1 PM (local time). Esporte Interativo, another sports channel (official broadcasters of Uefa Champions League in Brazil), will show the match. It is owned by Turner and never showed rugby before. Interesting move.

thatrugbyguy wrote: I'm wondering if there would be value in playing some high profiled matches in Japan during 2018 to help build hype for the tournament. Maybe the All Blacks and Springboks could stop over during the November window next year.

Yep. They said: probably 2 or 3 from Spain, Russia, Germany, Belgium and Portugal. I think we must play Spain and Belgium. Russia I am afraid about the weather (as they never play at home in November), but it would be great too. Maybe a country like Netherlands, Switzerland, Czechia or Poland would be good as well, because we are more or less together in the Ranking.

You can not play in Krasnoyarsk in November, but you can play in the European part of Russia. Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Kazan, Penza, Rostov, Krasnodar, Makhachkala and others. Good stadiums of football clubs have now become more accessible after the construction of new arenas for the WC2018.We need home tests. This is not normal, when in June and November we have been playing for many years only away. In winter, all home games are held in Sochi.I would like to see home tests in Russia against Uruguay-Brazil-Chile, Namibia-Kenya-Zimbabwe, Japan-Hongkong-South Korea.